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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Abu Muslim

718 - 755

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Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khurasani (Persian: ابومسلم عبدالرحمان بن مسلم خراسانی; born 718/19 or 723/27, died 755) or Behzādān Pour Vandād Hormozd (بهزادان پور ونداد هرمزد) was a Persian general who led the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad dynasty, leading to the establishment of the Abbasid Caliphate. Little is known about Abu Muslim's origins, but by the early 740s he had been in contact with Abbasid agents and around the year 745 he was sent to Khorasan. In 747, Abu Muslim ignited an open revolt against Umayyad rule and quickly took Merv. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu Muslim has received more than 418,012 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Abu Muslim is the 112th most popular military personnel (down from 111th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Turkmenistan (up from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Turkmen Military Personnel.

Abu Muslim was a military leader who led a rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate.

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  • 420k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Abu Muslim ranks 112 out of 1,468Before him are Gaius Julius Caesar, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, Zhang Fei, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Alexander Selkirk, and Eli Cohen. After him are Cimon, Semyon Timoshenko, Erich von Falkenhayn, Narses, Theodor Eicke, and Yi Sun-sin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 718, Abu Muslim ranks 1After him are Constantine V, Empress Kōken, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, Lupus II of Gascony, and Ōtomo no Yakamochi. Among people deceased in 755, Abu Muslim ranks 1After him is Isma'il ibn Ja'far.

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In Turkmenistan

Among people born in Turkmenistan, Abu Muslim ranks 3 out of 33Before him are Saparmurat Niyazov (1940) and Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu (1199). After him are Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (1957), Al-Zamakhshari (1075), Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur (1603), Al-Nasa'i (829), Al-Muqanna (800), Yelena Bonner (1923), Mithridates II of Parthia (-150), Andronikos I of Trebizond (1101), and Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi (770).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Turkmenistan

Among military personnels born in Turkmenistan, Abu Muslim ranks 1